Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERThe unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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